Mash vs. Smash

A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.

To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.

A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.

To render (something) into a mush or pulp, as by throwing or crushing

A soft pulpy mixture or mass.

To strike with a heavy blow or impact

Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.

(Sports) To hit (a ball, puck, or shuttlecock) in a forceful overhand stroke.

A crushing or grinding.

To cause to come into forceful contact with something

(Slang) An infatuation or act of flirtation.

To crush or destroy completely

To convert (malt or grain) into mash.

To surpass or outdo by a large margin

To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing

To move and strike or collide suddenly, noisily, and violently

Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.

To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision

(Slang) To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

(Sports) To hit a ball, puck, or shuttlecock in a forceful overhand stroke.

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

To go bankrupt.

(brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

A heavy blow or collision

(mostly UK) Mashed potatoes.

(Sports) A forceful overhand stroke, as in tennis or badminton.

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

A violent breaking of something or the noise made by such breaking

(obsolete) A mess; trouble.

Total defeat or destruction; ruin.

(obsolete) A mesh.

Financial failure; bankruptcy.

(obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.

A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.

(obsolete) A dandy, a masher.

A soft drink made of crushed fruit.

(obsolete) The object of one’s affections regardless of sex.

(Informal) A resounding success

A gun.

Of, relating to, or being a resounding success

(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure

With a sudden violent crash.

(transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.

The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

(ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).

A traffic collision.

To press. en

(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).

To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.

To act violently.

A bankruptcy.

To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

A disaster; a bad situation.

To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

A mashed foodstuff.

An abbreviation for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, consisting of the equipment and personnel required to perform emergency operations on injured soldiers, located in tents near the front lines of combat; as, he worked in the 25th MASH.

A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.

A mesh.

Airspeed; dynamic pressure.

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

(transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

(intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.

A mess; trouble.

(transitive) To hit extremely hard.

To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle.

To ruin completely and suddenly.

A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.

Mixture of ground animal feeds

To deform through continuous pressure.

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

To have sexual intercourse with.

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;

To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.

To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.

A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

Hence, bankruptcy.

A vigorous blow;

A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)

A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head

The act of colliding with something;

A conspicuous success;

Hit hard;

Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over;

Reduce to bankruptcy;

Hit violently;

Humiliate or depress completely;

Damage or destroy as if by violence;

Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke

Collide or strike violently and suddenly;

Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful);

Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow;

With a loud crash;